TY - JOUR
T1 - On the existence of root-initial-accenting suffixes
T2 - An elicitation study of Japanese -zu
AU - Kawahara, Shigeto
AU - Wolf, Matthew
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* Many thanks to Michael Becker, Aaron Braver, Patrik Bye, Paul de Lacy, Darin Flynn, Karen Jesney, Haruo Kubozono, John McCarthy, Kathryn Flack Potts, Kathryn Pruitt, Anne-Michelle Tessier, Kyoko Yamaguchi and the audience at the 81st Annual Meeting of the LSA for helpful feedback. We are in particular grateful to two anonymous re-viewers for their constructive suggestions on an earlier version of this article. All re-maining errors are ours. This research is supported by a Research Council Grant from Rutgers University to the first author. Correspondence address: Shigeto Kawahara, Department of Linguistics, Rutgers University, 18 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1108, USA. E-mail: kawahara@rci.rutgers.edu.
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - Most known cases of affix controlled accentuation patterns involve local accent assignment: prefixes assign root-initial accents whereas suffixes assign root-final accents. In this article we document the nonlocal accentuation behavior of -zu, a recently emerged suffix in Japanese which an elicitation study reveals to be productively root-initial-accenting. We present a phonological analysis of the -zu data, showing that standard theories of morpheme realization predict the existence of such a suffix. The existence of -zu therefore fills what would otherwise be an undesirable typological gap.
AB - Most known cases of affix controlled accentuation patterns involve local accent assignment: prefixes assign root-initial accents whereas suffixes assign root-final accents. In this article we document the nonlocal accentuation behavior of -zu, a recently emerged suffix in Japanese which an elicitation study reveals to be productively root-initial-accenting. We present a phonological analysis of the -zu data, showing that standard theories of morpheme realization predict the existence of such a suffix. The existence of -zu therefore fills what would otherwise be an undesirable typological gap.
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U2 - 10.1515/LING.2010.026
DO - 10.1515/LING.2010.026
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954686220
SN - 0024-3949
VL - 48
SP - 837
EP - 864
JO - Linguistics
JF - Linguistics
IS - 4
ER -